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Recent Examples of maladjusted
Life without either, the pair determine, has left Leonora morose, maladjusted and desperate to claw her way back to the road not taken.
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Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.
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Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Winton, the class clown and semi-pariah who fits the stereotype of the clingy, maladjusted product of a broken home.
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Jean Garnett,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
Tapping celebrity guests like A$AP Rocky and Tame Impala for an album of silky cosmic funk, Thundercat channels the id of the geeky, emotionally maladjusted loner.
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Daniel Felsenthal,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
For the blessedly unaware, gooning is when maladjusted young men consume immense, overstimulating amounts of pornography and masturbate for hours on end to reach some kind of transcendent release.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
An elderly man, adjusting to the recent death of his beloved wife, meets a brilliant yet maladjusted teenager in a cemetery.
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The Know,
Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2025
Nothing spoils a Sunday afternoon outside with the family quite like your youngest child being carried off by a horde of maladjusted howler monkeys.
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Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Sep. 2025
So what lies ahead for the most maladjusted characters in the entire TGIT lineup?
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Sep. 2019
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.
—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Winton, the class clown and semi-pariah who fits the stereotype of the clingy, maladjusted product of a broken home.
—
Jean Garnett,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
Tapping celebrity guests like A$AP Rocky and Tame Impala for an album of silky cosmic funk, Thundercat channels the id of the geeky, emotionally maladjusted loner.
—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
For the blessedly unaware, gooning is when maladjusted young men consume immense, overstimulating amounts of pornography and masturbate for hours on end to reach some kind of transcendent release.
—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
An elderly man, adjusting to the recent death of his beloved wife, meets a brilliant yet maladjusted teenager in a cemetery.
—
The Know,
Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2025
Nothing spoils a Sunday afternoon outside with the family quite like your youngest child being carried off by a horde of maladjusted howler monkeys.
—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Sep. 2025
So what lies ahead for the most maladjusted characters in the entire TGIT lineup?
—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maladjusted
Adjective
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The result is a system that is increasingly incoherent and unbalanced.
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In most cases, these insects feed on unbalanced diets, such as blood, plant sap, and grain, which tend to lack essential nutrients such as amino acids and vitamins that the endosymbiont provides.
Adjective
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As reported by at the time by CBS Chicago's Jim Avila, the grave was over 5 feet deep and 6 feet wide, and was discovered after heavy rains washed away part of the freshly disturbed ground.
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Pulling brush back onto disturbed dirt areas to reduce erosion.
Adjective
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Katie Wilson won an upset victory to lead Seattle last fall.
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This is an odd thing to be upset about.
Adjective
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Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.
Adjective
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Pitman grew even more agitated.
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Players grew agitated having to wait, but James was sending a message to Irving and the rest of his teammates.
Adjective
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The film’s director, uptight Euro expat Max (Christoph Waltz), is initially enraged by their hijacking of the shoot, but his studio fatcat bosses (both voiced by Jeff Bridges) love the unhinged results.
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Thanks to some Season 2 work to round out Corlys, there is some real feeling to be had when his forces come to a head with the foreign navy, led by a delightfully unhinged villain (Abigail Thorne).
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“Maladjusted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maladjusted. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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